Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Why Should the Sum of Masks / Kernel / Filter in Image Processing be One?


I am studying pyramids (expanding and reducing) and I am a newbie. Why should the sum of the convolution mask be one when we are using gaussian distribution?


According to When should the sum of all elements of a gaussian kernel be zero? and Why is sum of values of an edge detection filter zero? it should be zero not one.


I am confused. Any precise explanation is really appreciated.




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